Flash AS3: Making your clickable Movieclip to show the Mouse Cursor

Moving on from Flash 8 to the latest version of Flash, which was 5.5, one might have encounter difficulties like the following. When you have created a Button with a 'Movieclip' type, you will realize that the button will not show the mouse cursor, even you have added all the Eventlisteners. In as2, an individual will not encounter the following issue: button1.onRelease = function(){ //by adding a onRelease function on a Button or a Movieclip, the mouse cursor will appear automatically. } But in as3, you need more than adding just an EventListener: //By adding this line, you will force the mouse cursor to appear on the 'MovieClip'. button1.buttonMode = true; //Adding a click event to a Movieclip or Button and point it to a function once the user trigger the event. button1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickEvent); //This function will be triggered when the user clicks on the above button. function clickEvent(event:Event){ //Some actions to be done here. } After coding for a few years, I preferred using a function to bind the whole 'Button' and 'MovieClip' with the respective EventListeners //Setup button1 of type 'MovieClip' with all the basic EventListener and show the mouse cursor setupNormBtn(button1); //Setup button2 of type 'Button' with all the basic EventListener setupBasicBtn(button2); //Function to call to setup the basic EventListeners of a MovieClip function setupNormBtn(tempMc){ tempMc.buttonMode = true; tempMc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, rollOverEvent); tempMc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, rollOutEvent); tempMc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickEvent); } //Function to call to remove the basic EventListeners of a MovieClip function killNormBtn(tempMc){ tempMc.buttonMode = false; tempMc.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, rollOverEvent); tempMc.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, rollOutEvent); tempMc.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickEvent); } //Function to call to setup the basic EventListeners of a Button function setupBasicBtn(tempMc){ tempMc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickEvent); } //Function to call to remove the basic EventListeners of a Button function killBasicBtn(tempMc){ tempMc.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickEvent); } //Function will be called when the user rollover a MovieClip function rollOverEvent(event:MouseEvent){ event.target.gotoAndStop("over"); } //Function will be called when the user rollout a MovieClip function rollOutEvent(event:MouseEvent){ event.target.gotoAndStop("up"); } //Function will be called when the user clicks on the MovieClip or Button function clickEvent(event:MouseEvent){ if(event.target == button1){ //do actions for button1 trace("button1"); }else if(event.target == button2){ //do actions for button2 trace("button2"); } }